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Garden Help Desk: Six tips to help get you over your gardening hurdles

Today we’re sharing some gardening encouragement from one of the Master Gardener candidates in this year’s class. I spent time last summer at a local farmers market. This was partly to sell produce but mostly to interact with other backyard gardeners and better understand their ...

Garden Help Desk: Lawn going brown? Check your watering method

My lawn is burning up in the heat. Can I put on some nitrogen to help it green up and grow? In general, it’s best if we don’t fertilize stressed plants, especially water-stressed or heat-stressed plants, and that includes our lawns. The lawns in our area are cool-season lawns - they ...

Garden Help Desk: Reducing bitterness in homegrown cucumbers

Some of our cucumbers are bitter. I’ve heard that once a plant produces bitter cucumbers it will always produce bitter cucumbers. Is it really a lost cause? Should I pull out the plant? That bitter flavor that you tasted in your cucumber is cucurbitacin, a natural defense compound in ...

EveryDay Strong: Kids feel alone — here’s what you can do about that

I have overseen a volunteer crisis team for the past 15 years within Utah. If there’s a suicide or a shooting in a school, or a community needs help, they’ll fly our team out. I’ve been involved with close to 55 youth suicides either as a first responder or as a consultant. In about ...